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Local News and Views from Iran – The “Local” section is dedicated to political news stories from Iran that do not fall under any of the other main categories, including municipal issues, special interests groups, party politics, and statements from religious figures.

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Daily: Arbaeen preparation a test for Raisi administration

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The ‘messy’ preparation for Iranian pilgrims to embark on the million-man Arbaeen walk in neighboring Iraq is a giveaway of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi administration’s performance a year into office, a left-leaning newspaper argues.
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Husband of Iranian woman who jumped to death to prevent rape demands speedy execution

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The husband of an Iranian woman, who recently lost her life after jumping from a building’s second floor in the western city of Marivan to escape a rape attempt, says he wants to see the culprit at the gallows immediately.
Local

Iran gives 5-year residence permit to foreign entrepreneurs

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Iran’s cabinet has issued an enactment to grant a 5-year residence permit to foreign specialists and entrepreneurs. Per the enactment, the specialists and entrepreneurs that are elites will enjoy Iranian citizenship rights and privileges.
Local

New chapter in Iran’s brain drain: ‘migrating university professors’

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An Iranian academic official says during the past several years Iran has witnessed one of the fastest human capital flights in the world, losing its highly educated and skilled manpower mainly to sanctions-hit frail economy.
Local

Iranian interior minister: One fourth of Arbaeen pilgrims have returned home

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Iran’s Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi says a fourth of the Iranian Arbaeen pilgrims have returned to the country from Iraq.
Local

People of short stature rally in Tehran, demand medicine

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Scores of Iranians with dwarfism and their families gathered outside the Food and Drug Administration in the capital Tehran on Saturday to express their disapproval with the stringent US-sponsored Western sanctions.
Local

Parliament top health official slams govt. handling of Arbaeen pilgrimage

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The chair of the Iranian parliament’s health commission has criticized the government for failing to provide the necessary infrastructure for the travel of five million nationals, who were planned to head to Iraq for Arbaeen march.
Local

Official: Two dozen people arrested in Iran’s Hamedan, many non-residents

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The governor of Iran’s western province of Hamedan says 25 people have been arrested in recent protests against water shortage there.
Local

Iran VP rejects claims of her son’s immigration to end controversy

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Iran’s Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Ensieh Khazali dismisses claims about her son’s immigration to Canada, clarifying that he is on a job-related mission abroad meant to enhance the country’s knowledge-based sector and will return home soon.
Local

Iran intelligence confirms arrest of minister advisor, says investigation underway

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The Iranian intelligence minister says the ministry has taken the necessary measures regarding Qassem Makarem Shirazi, an advisor to the minister of roads and urban development who is charged with financial corruption, adding that the judiciary is investigating the case.
Local

Zahedivafa proposed to Iran’s Parliament as labor minister

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The spokesman for the Presiding Board of the Iranian Parliament says the administration has proposed Mohammad-Hadi Zahedivafa as minister of cooperatives, labor and social welfare.
Local

Rouhani makes new revelations about key moments in his presidency

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Iran’s Jamaran news website has published parts of an interview with former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that the interviewers plan to publish as part of a book titled “With No Smoke, Fire or Blood”.
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Iran’s Leader urges vigilance against US divisive plots in Muslim world

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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned that the global hegemonic system, spearheaded by the US, is bent on pitting the world’s Muslims against one another by drawing lines of separation between various faiths in Islam, urging vigilance in the face of such conspiracies.
Local

President Raisi says Iran has survived crises, rejects domination

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says the country has weathered all crises and today the world has realized the Islamic Republic's righteousness. 
Judiciary

Iran hands down sentences to convicts in case of deadly building collapse

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The Iranian Judiciary says sentences have been handed down to 21 people found guilty in the case of a tragic building collapse in the southwestern city of Abadan, which claimed the lives of 43 people.
Local

Iran’s leader offers condolences over passing of Shia cleric, Mostafavi

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Iran’s leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has offered condolences to the family, students and followers of Hojatoleslam Seyyed Hassan Mostafavi over the Iranian cleric’s passing.
Local

Kayhan daily urges Iran govt. to abandon nuclear talks, continue good old job

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Iranian Principlist daily Kayhan has called on the government to abandon the talks for revival of the 2015 nuclear deal and continue on what it called the path of success it was treading over the past year.
Local

President Raisi says Iran ready to help flood-stricken Pakistan

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In a phone talk with Pakistan's Prime Minister, Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi announced Tehran’s readiness to provide the flood-hit country with relief aid.
Healthcare

Iranian president says the country needs more doctors, nurses

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says necessary measures must be taken to increase the number of doctors and nurses in the country.
Local

Kayhan: Iran should delay nuclear deal revival for two more months

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A newspaper close to Iran’s Principlist camp advises the Raisi administration to postpone a restoration of the 2015 nuclear deal for another two months, saying that such a delay will make the diplomatic process end fully in Tehran’s favor.
Local

Iranian daily: You didn’t deal with Russian envoy insults, now it’s UK ambassador’s turn!

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An Iranian newspaper has written in a scathing editorial if the Iranian foreign ministry had sternly dealt with the Russian ambassador for his ‘offensive remarks’ and actions during the past two years, the British envoy would not dare go down the same path.
Science and Technology

Raisi: Elite workforce Iran’s main asset on path to lasting development

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President Ebrahim Raisi praises the elite community for shining in different scientific Olympiads and raising Iran’s flag on the world stage, describing the elite workforce as the country’s main asset on the path toward lasting development.
Local

People in Iran’s Hamedan angry over water cut

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A group of residents in Iran’s ancient capital Hamedan gathered outside the governorate building for the second consecutive night on Wednesday to express their fury with the cut in water supplies in the city for the past several days.
Literature

Famed Iranian poet Ebtehaj’s body back home

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The body of prominent Iranian poet Hooshang Ebtahaj was transferred from his residence in Germany to Iran on Wednesday night for funeral and burial processions.
Local

MP: Iranian govt. green lights establishment of South Kerman Province

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The Iranian government has finally agreed to creation of South Kerman as the 32nd province in Iran, according to a member of parliament representing the southeastern Iranian city of Jiroft, in Kerman Province.
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